Originally Posted by
LTBoston
Agree with all of the above. It's just the polite thing to do to wait a couple of seconds to ensure everyone who is disembarking has disembarked, as opposed to shoving your way in.
MY pet peeve is people who linger at the top or foot of escalators, gazing about in wonder, as other passengers pile up behind them.
Or worse--I'm thinking of a supermarket in Shanghai.
There's an inclined slidewalk/escalator that ones takes to get out. (One also takes one to get in but that's not the problem.) Beside the bottom of the slidewalk is a little booth that sells hot corn on the cob. Every so often some elderly idiots stop to buy corn while standing on the flat metal at the very end of the slidewalk.
Now, there's normally enough space one could squeeze past these morons but the problem is shopping carts. The carts & slidewalk are designed so the carts can safely be taken on it--if they're straight they won't move, period, if they're not straight they'll move to the edge and then stop.
Not only do they not leave enough space for a cart to squeeze past but the locking action makes it impossible to move the cart sideways other than by picking it up. One can see the problem but be helpless to avoid running into them.